Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
Ahhh….I just hate when I lose my comments. Oh well, if what I was commenting on that I lost comes up again, I will work on reconstructing my comments. 🙁 Maybe I should work on restricting my comments to a shorter version so that I don’t lose as much 🙂

1. Obviously i believe that there is a ‘formal’ type gathering demonstrated in Pauls epistles, and many don’t. I have shown why i believe this but no one has given any evidence to conclude that 1 Cor 14 is not directed to a ‘formal’ type gathering. Likewise do any of you bother going to church on a sunday? IF you do, why do you bother, if Sunday ‘Church’ is the same as bible study and the like. Your own actions if you go to church, contradict your own view.

Mark, you say “formal” but the assemblies in the early church were nothing like what we have in our “formal” church. Instead of one speaker with all just as listeners, everyone had an opportunity to edify the church. Going to a larger building on Sunday is wonderful because many more people are able to meet that way. But the other smaller gatherings of the church are just as good. They are more intimate and everyone gets to speak out. Our “church” services on Sunday are tradition and not necessary to meet in a large building. Many people today have opted out of the large (please excuse me for the dear pastors who read this as I am not trying to offend you) institutional one man dog-and-pony show. Small groups and home churches are becoming far more common place.